Cookie policy

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What are cookies?

This website, like many other websites, uses cookies. A cookie is a simple text file that is stored on your computer or mobile device by a website's server. It contains anonymous information that allows a website to remember things like your preferences. Cookies can help to give you a better browsing experience and help us to improve our website.

Two types of cookies are used on this website:

Session Cookies. These are temporary cookies, which only exist until you close the browser you are using to access the website.

Persistent Cookies. These are cookies which remain in your cookie file after you have visited our website. These cookies help us identify you when you return to our site.

What do we use cookies for?

None of the cookies used on our websites collect personally identifiable information about you.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

Maintaining user preferences. If our website has a link to allow you to view the site with a larger font size or without images for improved accessibility, then a cookie will be set to allow that preference to remain between page visits and on your future return to the website.

Monitoring our website traffic. We use Google Analytics, a popular web analytics service provided by Google. Google Analytics uses cookies to help us to analyse how visitors use the site. To find out more about how these cookies are used visit the Google Privacy site.

To allow certain functions and to help you navigate the website efficiently.

Session management.

Cookies set by this site

Cookie name

Cookie type

Purpose of cookie

PHPSESSID

Session

This cookie is used by the PHP scripting language to allow SESSION variables to be saved on the webserver. This cookie is essential for the operation of this website.

graphics_mode

Persistent

If you choose not to view this website with images then this choice is saved in the graphics_mode cookie until you opt to swich the display of images back on

survey001

Persistent

This cookie allows the site to check if a visitor has previously been asked to complete an online survey

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Persistent

These cookies are set by Google Analytics to allow us to track the use of the site. These cookies are not set if you switch off cookies for this site.

Further information about cookies can be found on the Interactive Advertising Bureau's website www.allaboutcookies.org.

Cookies set by third party sites

The content of this website is updated regularly, and we may embed content from websites such as:

YouTube

Vimeo

Flickr

AmMap

Twitter

Facebook

SurveyMonkey.

When you visit a page with content embedded from any of these services you may be presented with cookies from these websites. This website, the website owners and the website and software developers do not control the dissemination of these cookies. You should check the relevant third party website for more information about these.

How to control and delete cookies

We will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you. If you wish to restrict or block all the cookies which are set by us, or indeed any other website, you can do this through your browser settings. The Help function within your browser should tell you how.

Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your computer (including those from this visit) as well as more general information about cookies. For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile device you will need to refer to your handset manual.